Unfamiliar Text Revision - Identify Language features

Question 1

Name the language feature: Wishy washy, stinking hot.

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Colloquial language

Question 2

Name the part of speech: Auckland, Sky Tower

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Proper noun

Question 3

Name the part of speech in bold: Dead bodies, bloated corpses.

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Adjectives

Question 4

Name the language feature: Hardy men sat like stone.

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Simile

Question 5

Name the language feature: It takes a long, long time to get anywhere.

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Repetition

Question 6

Name the language feature: The bugs are as big as saucers.

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Hyperbole

Question 7

What type of sentence? The city was alive.

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Simple

Question 8

Language feature: The tree at the back of the house has already begun a slow undressing.

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Personification

Question 9

Name the part of speech in bold: Bodies pushed around each other and muscles strained.

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Verb

Question 10

Name the language feature: But can it really be over with another vile winter on its approach?

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Rhetorical question

Question 11

Name the language feature: The deafening silence lasted long into the night.

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Oxymoron

Question 12

Dawn came cascading over the roofs, catching the red silken sails on fire.

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Metaphor

Question 13

Vile, gloomy, fears, depression can be a negative feeling or mood. What is the name for this?

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Connotation

Question 14

What type of sentence? The ships slid through the mist.

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Simple

Question 15

Name the language feature: Time to bite the bullet

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Idiom

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